Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Why I wrote “End the propaganda, Jubilee!”

It started with 11 girls and a dog from
Mombasa, and then a man and a Cow from Kiambu County and then a man and a dog,
a man with a donkey, a man with another cow, a man with a chicken and then two
men with goats.

The Kenyan mainstream Media which only
weeks ago were broadcasting somewhat relevant news, albeit heavily bent on
politics had now degraded itself to lewd stories of alleged bestiality. All of
this was triggered by a “cup of tea” meeting at Statehouse.

I am just an ordinary Kenyan, broke, out of
regular work and Kikuyu. I watched in 2007/08 while ordinary Kenyans like me
were slaughtered by militia in the post election violence. This wasn’t the
first time there was politically instigated violence in this country; in fact,
every single county in Kenya periodically runs violent whenever some politician
wants to exert or gain power.

We live in a country that is called an
“Island of peace” in a conflict region, but the truth is Kenya is NOT peaceful.
We don’t live in peace. Us, the ordinary, broke, out of work Kenyans.

I started getting this boiling sensation in
my gut when the campaigns for presidency began. Note that the campaigns for the
other electoral posts were never as bitter, hateful or malicious. My stomach
churned every time a candidate would make utterances that were ethnically
divisive, hateful and derogatory against an entire ethnic community simply
because his rival came from that community.

Firstly, I believe that going to elections
in a country that is so divided is endorsing a farce. Secondly, I believe that
the electorate as a whole should have rejected the ballot because of the
divisive people on that ballot. Lastly, when 93% of Kenyans voted ethnically,
for their own ethnic representatives, that was NOT democracy.

This is a nation fragmented to its very
core; the politics are of hatred, ethno-centrism and bigotry. It doesn’t matter
what your ethnicity is, you voted like a bigot when you choose not who you knew
was the best suited person but the person who was from your tribe, or allied to
your tribe. There is no democracy in Kenya because the political parties have
no ideologies and no system of inclusiveness and the legal system via its laws
encourage extreme division by allowing coalitions.

You would have imagined that allowing
coalitions would bring people together, right? But actually what the coalitions
or alliances allowed was parties that were inherently ethnic and certainly not
national to join forces with other ethnic parties and present a façade of being
national in nature. In the past one year we have seen the very depths of hell
displayed by some MPs hopping from political party to political party all in
the hope of using that to engineer their return to power.

In 2007, 60% of the MPs voted into
parliament were new i.e. they were not part of the previous parliament. By
2011, 100% of these MPs had passed legislations to allow themselves more perks,
allowances, privileges and the chance to hop from party to party as they
wished.

It’s already August 2013. The presidential
campaign period is over. Barely one month after being sworn in MPs demanded
that they receive the same pay as the previous parliament even though this was
a new constitution and a new government and system in transition. Majority of these MPs represent the Jubilee
coalition and indeed Jubilee constitutes the current government even though at
the moment of this uttermost betrayal, all MPs were united in their greed and
perversion.

6 months after the elections, the Jubilee
government has nothing to show in terms of actual results. They can’t sustain
their campaign promises of free laptops or free maternity, or jobs for the
youth. They are not interested in fulfilling promises, that much is clear. So
instead of trying to pretend they are working, they try to distract the nation,
by luring the media and telling us lecherous tales of bestial sex.

In all this, to add to the tactic of
diverting attention, the Government Spokesman chooses to take what appears to
be a personal and emotive stand against Raila Odinga to the next level. “Raila
Odinga’s politics are arrogant, chest thumping, hateful and toxic.”

Toxic. We have a nation where 50% of the
population did NOT vote for the president. In an exam if a child gets 50% that
is a mere C. Why should a government with a C grade brag or abuse others? Where
does the government spokesman get off insulting the opposition when he is NOT
an elected official? How can a government representative address the whole
nation in this manner?

Yet we are divided, we are not united. Even
if we are all poor, half of us are smug bigots and the other half are silently
resentful bigots. My country Kenya is a country in political conflict, and in
many parts of the country this political conflict explodes in perennial
violence.

Toxic. The propaganda and absolute drivel
spewing out of Jubilee government is TOXIC, HATEFUL, CHEST THUMPING and
ARROGANT.

I love my country. Very much so, I had to
do something to switch of the flow of toxicity bursting out of the mouths of
undeserving, childish and deviant people. To tell the country, I love you and I
will stand up to these sewer rats.